Spot futures are still gravitating towards the 75 cents level and for the past eight sessions the March contract has settled within a very narrow band of less than 100 points,between 74.79 and 75.71 cents/lb. There have been a few ...
Tags: NY futures, cotton, US, vacuum effect, China
The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has released the 2012 edition of its biennial International Production Cost Comparison – the only consolidated source for benchmarking the yarn and fabric production costs ...
Tags: International Textile Manufacturers Federation, yarn, fabric production
Experts, including fashion designers, retailers and university professors, have requested the Government of UK to promote textile and apparel production in Britain. Speaking at a conference titled 'A New Dawn: Rebuilding UK Textile ...
Tags: textile, apparel production, conference, report
The mass exodus of migrant workers during the festival season in textile industry may create labor shortage in Surat's textile industry. Since the migrant laborers move out to their native places for a month long vacation during the ...
Tags: textile industry, labor shortage, festival season, FOSTTA
The survey showed that to 2017 the total global textile machinery market is expected to reach$22.9 billion,the largest proportion of Asian textile manufacturers investing in new equipment. An institution in May 2012 data show that 90%of ...
Bursa,the north-western province of Turkey,exported textile and readymade clothing items worth over US$1.5 billion till November this year,according to the Uludag Exporters'Association(UIB)data.Registering a year-on-year rise of 9.8 ...
Tags: Bursa, textile, readymade clothing, export
'Textile Exchange', one of the world's leading organisations for the promotion, analysis and certification of organic cotton and organic textiles, awarded C&A Europe the title of a 'Future Shaper' this year. This makes the fashion company ...
Tags: Textile Exchange, Future Shaper, sustainable textile production
Fifty third Annual General Meeting of South India Mills' Association (SIMA) was addressed by Chairman Mr. S. Dinakaran. Meeting speech of Mr. S. Dinakaran: The year 2011-12 witnessed a significant slowdown in textile production mainly ...
Tags: textile sector, raw material prices, textile market, textile industry
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has published a new set of chemical commitments agreed in conjunction with Greenpeace. The commitments relate to the safe use of chemicals in textile production. They are now part of the M&S approach to managing ...
Tags: textile production, textile market, textile industry, textile
A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound Lusehøj may actually derive from Austria, new findings suggest. The cloth thus tells a surprising story about long-distance Bronze Age trade ...
Tags: Nettle cloth, Bronze Age, trade connections
Environmentally friendly and socially acceptable production conditions will continue to be one of the greatest challenges of the textile industry–that was the bottom line of this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers which ...
Tags: United States of America, OEKO-TEX
A school uniform that continues to look new, after the first week of term, is every parent's dream. Thanks to an enzymatic bioblasting process, UK retailer, Marks & Spencer (M&S), has recently turned this into reality. Increasing quality ...
Tags: United Kingdom, M&S, Stay Newtm Technology
Textile and apparel production in Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan declined by 21 percent year-on-year during the initial three quarters of the current year, Trend reported citing Kyrtag, the Kyrgyz news agency. The fall in Kyrgyz ...
Tags: Textile production, Central Asian Republic, Russian exports
Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, a Member of Parliament (MP) from Balangir in eastern Indian state of Odisha, has urged the Central Government to establish a handloom cluster at Sonepur town, which also serves as the headquarters of Subarnapur ...
Tags: textile production, textile, handloom cluster, handloom
The US textile equipment industry will continue to decline over the next few years, according to analysts at asset disposition and auction solutions provider Great American Group. They blame the decline on the high cost of operations and ...
Tags: market view, Textile equipment